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Until the Spirit Comes: The Spirit of God in the Book of Isaiah is unavailable, but you can change that!

The surge of the Pentecostal movement in this century has brought new relevance to the study of the Spirit of God in the Old Testament. Surprisingly, however, this theme has been largely neglected by Pentecostal scholars. Ma seeks to fill this gap by providing an in-depth study of the Spirit of God in the Isaianic traditions. He argues that the Old Testament concept of the Spirit of God has more...

3.2.2 The Wisdom Connection. The association of רוח and wisdom is a new development. Rylaarsdam observes correctly, Thus we see now that the integration of the Hebrew concept of deity, wisdom and spirit, two elements in it that begin at opposite poles, are gradually drawn together and begin to operate in the same orbit.162 There are explicit (11:2), as well as implicit, references relating the spirit of God to wisdom (30:1–5; 31:1–3). Yet wisdom has been a part of the charisma which Yahweh bestows,
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